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FCC Urged to Delay USF Vote
October 29, 2008 8:06 am | by Monica Alleven | News | CommentsThe FCC is getting pressured to delay yet another matter on its ambitious Nov. 4 agenda.
More Voices Protest White Space Plan
October 29, 2008 8:03 am | by Monica Alleven | News | CommentsThe FCC is hearing from a growing chorus that wants it to delay a planned Nov. 4 vote on white spaces.
FCC Says AWS-3 Auction Okay Despite Staunch Opposition
October 13, 2008 8:03 am | by Evan Koblentz | News | CommentsThe FCC will move forward with plans to auction AWS-3 spectrum
CTIA Wants Universal Service Break for Some Customers
October 13, 2008 8:00 am | by Wireless Week Staff | News | CommentsThe FCC should not fully charge universal service fees to customers whose wireless phones are not their primary phones
FCC Opens E-911 Reporting System
October 10, 2008 7:51 am | by Wireless Week Staff | News | CommentsThe E-911 Architecture Information System is now active, FCC officials said.
T-Mobile, M2Z Go Another Round in AWS Debate
October 8, 2008 8:21 am | by Evan Koblentz | News | CommentsT-Mobile today filed yet another critique of M2Z Network’s plan to use AWS-3 spectrum for offering free, nationwide mobile WiMAX service.
Congress Extends Fuel Cell Tax Credit
October 6, 2008 8:05 am | by Rhonda Wickham | News | CommentsOn Friday, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to extend the Investment Tax Credit for fuel cell technology by 8 years.
Obama Employs iPhone App
October 3, 2008 7:49 am | by Rhonda Wickham | News | CommentsBarack Obama’s campaign has developed a new iPhone application that makes use of the iPhone's social networking attributes.
Tower Co-Location Faces Big Changes
October 2, 2008 9:50 pm | by Evan Koblentz | Articles | CommentsUntil the 1990s, an operator could install a wireless tower almost wherever it pleased and with minimal objection from local communities. It didn’t take many towers to support an entire region because there weren’t many customers in the first place and most of the data was simple voice.
Seybold’s Take - More, Not Fewer, Towers
October 2, 2008 9:42 pm | by Andrew M. Seybold | Articles | CommentsIn the next few years, the demands for tower space and new cell sites will reach an all-time high. There are new build-outs required for Clearwire/Sprint, for AWS spectrum owners including T-Mobile and a number of cable operators.
Broadband Data Bill To Improve Reporting
October 2, 2008 8:12 am | by Rhonda Wickham | News | CommentsThe U.S. Congress has passed the Broadband Data Improvement Act (S. 1492), which should help the government collect better information
Carnegie Mellon Prof Becomes FCC Chief Tech
October 2, 2008 8:09 am | by Wireless Week Staff | News | CommentsThe FCC is getting a chief technologist. Jon Peha, Ph.D., will serve at chief technologist and as a senior advisor on communications technology
T-Mobile Once Again Fires at M2Z Plan
October 1, 2008 8:11 am | by Evan Koblentz | News | CommentsT-Mobile is now speaking out at an increased pace against startup M2Z Networks’ plan to build a nationwide AWS-3 wireless network.
FCC Enacts New D-Block Plan
September 26, 2008 8:08 am | by Wireless Week Staff | News | CommentsThe FCC yesterday officially voted to re-auction the nationwide 700 MHz D-block spectrum at an opening bid of $750 million.
FCC To Vote on D-Block Resurrection Plan
September 25, 2008 8:16 am | by Wireless Week Staff | News | CommentsIf at first you don’t succeed in selling, cut the price and announce a sale.
Carriers, Local Governments Debate Mobile Taxes
September 19, 2008 8:04 am | by Evan Koblentz | News | CommentsThe CTIA and Verizon Wireless yesterday both reiterated their support for the Cell Tax Fairness Act of 2008
FCC To Try Again For 700 MHz Network
September 8, 2008 7:56 am | by Evan Koblentz | News | CommentsThe FCC later this month may try again to sell its 700 MHz licenses for a national public safety network.
FCC Reconsidering Data Collection Methods
September 5, 2008 7:44 am | by Evan Koblentz | News | CommentsThe FCC today may allow the nation’s largest telecommunications companies to report less data about consumer complaints
Curing the D-Block Blues
August 31, 2008 6:36 pm | by Elliott Drucker | Articles | CommentsThe FCC’s 700 MHz auction was a big success, no matter how you cut it. It raised a total of $18 billion for 1,090 licenses.
FCC Plans Conclusive AWS Interference Test
August 29, 2008 8:43 am | by Evan Koblentz | News | CommentsThe FCC will test for interference between the Advanced Wireless Service spectrum bands 1 and 3 next week
FCC Formally Slaps Comcast
August 21, 2008 8:09 am | by Brian Santo | News | CommentsThe Federal Communications Commission (FCC) formally published its decision ruling that Comcast was not using reasonable network management techniques
Sweet Dreams Are Made of These
August 20, 2008 8:09 am | by Rhonda Wickham | News | CommentsThe FCC has provided its rubber stamp OK for the HTC Dream mobile phone, moving Google Android fans one step closer to an actual handset.
Former FCC Commissioner Joins GoAmerica Board
August 11, 2008 8:09 am | by Rhonda Wickham | News | CommentsGoAmerica, provider of relay and wireless communications and professional interpreter services for deaf, hard-of-hearing and speech-disabled persons.
FCC Scolds Comcast, Implies Wider Impact
August 1, 2008 12:51 pm | by Evan Koblentz | News | CommentsThe FCC, said Friday that Comcast, by interrupting and slowing access to the BitTorrent file-sharing system, unduly interfered with and should be punished for secretly impacting which Internet applications work through its cable modems.
Martin's Last Hurrah
July 31, 2008 10:02 pm | by Andrew M. Seybold | Articles | CommentsFCC Chairman Kevin Martin is on record as saying that neither the 700 MHz D Block nor the AWS 2 (2155-2180 MHz) spectrum auctions will happen this year.
